Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CODDLE YOURSELF. Frostbite, associated in the popular mind with polar explorers and Everest ascenders, is a real and insidious danger whenever it is freezing outside. Just ten minutes of exposure can injure ears, cheeks, tips of noses and ungloved fingers. Smoking increases the risk, since nicotine constricts blood vessels, hastening the cooling process. Nor should one drink alcohol before venturing outside. Booze opens up the blood vessels and accelerates heat loss from the body...
Still, the Congressmen could not risk disbanding the committee altogether: they might be accused some day of somehow taking part in a conspiracy to cover up the truth. The House ordered the committee to come up with a "realistic budget" in two months' time and to produce evidence that the investigation might lead somewhere...
...immense traffic of social signals. But social kissing is also rampant in California, usually in the form of a double peck on the cheeks. Many believe it has gone too far. Says Los Angeles Social Leader Betsy Bloomingdale: "I find myself kissing and wishing I hadn't. You risk being rude if you kiss one person and not another. And there are awkward moments when you don't know whether to kiss or not to kiss. Usually, you kiss just to be safe...
Recombinant DNA research has led to extensive public discussions of two potential risks: the immediate risk of harm from some of the novel organisms produced, and the more conjectural, long-term risk that our interference with evolution will eventually create unforeseeable disasters. These discussions have been based largely on the assumption that any novel organism produced by this technique may well survive and spread. But this assumption ignores Darwin's great discovery: the dominating role of natural selection in determining what survive, multiplies, and evolves. While Darwin dealt only with the visible living world, Pasteur made essentially the same discovery...
...transmitted? (Legionnaires' disease is apparently not carried from one person to another.) One reassuring fact has already emerged. The mysterious bug is what McDade calls a "fastidious bacterium": not only hard to grow, but also extremely choosy about where it lives. That should help reduce the risk of any recurrences of last summer's tragic epidemic in Philadelphia...